To view the winning designs, CLICK HERE or scroll to the bottom of this email. Each winning proposal received the overwhelming percentage of the vote.

The vote was held Saturday morning at Field School (see photo on right). Prior to Saturday’s vote, children in the after-school programs at Pottawattomie Park and Willye White Park voted on the proposed playground designs for their respective parks. And the residents of Alden Village North, a home for developmentally disabled children, voted on the proposed playground designs for Howard Beach Park, the park closest to their facility.

Prior to the vote, the playground design renderings for each park were posted on my official Facebook page,http://www.facebook.com/joemoore49. To view the proposed designs for each park, click on the name of the park below:

Construction of the new playgrounds is scheduled to begin in the spring and will be completed by mid-summer, weather permitting.

The playgrounds were selected through a community application process administered by Friends of the Parks, a park advocacy organization, dedicated to preserving, protecting, and improving Chicago’s parks. I announced the initiative in March of 2013 and urged neighbors to submit their favorite playground for consideration. In true Rogers Park fashion, the neighbors were enthusiastic and well-organized. As a result, every 49th Ward playground submitted for consideration was selected.

Once construction of this second round of new playgrounds is completed next summer, nearly every old playground in Rogers Park will have been replaced in the last two years. All in all, our kids will have 10 brand new playgrounds to enjoy!